How did you discover Pratchett?
Most of my early scifi/fantasy picks were governed by the shelf-stockers at Barnes & Noble. I always fell for the cover art, first. (And I always split toward scifi first). I couldn't get through this collection of short stories by David Brin ("Otherness"), but I still dream about the possibilities suggested by its cover, painted by Donato Giancola.
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My intro to Pratchett was a mix of working in a library and my mother-in-law being a fan and telling me to go for it.
I've also just finished
The Picture of Dorian Gray, which somehow I've missed before. Absolutely loved it.
Next up is
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston.
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login"The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett, lichenologist Marie Antoine, and Michael Taylor. They inadvertently discovered a thriving ecosystem hidden among the tree tops, 60–90 meters (200–300 ft) above, of redwood lattices, berry bushes, bonsai trees, epiphytes, lichens, voles, and salamanders. "